Updated March 2017 1 CHERYL J. MISAK Department of Philosophy University of Toronto 427 Jackman Humanities Building 170 St. George Street, Toronto, M5R 2M8 [email protected] Research Interests Pragmatism, History of Analytic Philosophy, Frank Ramsey, Philosophy of Medicine, Ethics and Political Philosophy Education University of Oxford 1984-1988 D.Phil in Philosophy Columbia University 1983-1984 M.A. in Philosophy University of Lethbridge 1979-1983 B.A. in Philosophy ('With Great Distinction') Academic and Administrative Appointments 2009–2013 Vice-President and Provost, University of Toronto 2008-09 Interim Provost, University of Toronto 2007-08 Deputy Provost, University of Toronto 2006-07 Acting Vice-President and Principal, University of Toronto, Mississauga 2003-06 Dean, University of Toronto, Mississauga 2000-03 Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto 1998-00 Graduate Coordinator and Associate Chair, Dept of Philosophy 1990- Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto 1988-90 Assistant Professor, Philosophy, Queen's University 1988-90 Graduate Coordinator: Philosophy Department, Queen's University 1985-88 Lecturer and tutor, Balliol College, Oxford 1987 Lecturer, Sub-Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford Updated March 2017 2 Selected Awards, Honours, Visiting Positions 2017-18 Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 2017-18 Visiting Fellow, Oxford Centre for Life Writing 2017 University Professorship, University of Toronto 2016-17 Humboldt Research Prize, held at the Free University, Berlin 2014-15 Visiting Fellow Commoner, Trinity College, Cambridge 2013 Visiting Professor of Philosophy, New York University 2010 Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Lethbridge 2010-11 President, Charles S. Peirce Society 2008 ‘Experience, Narrative, and Ethical Deliberation’ selected by The Philosopher’s Annual as one of the 10 best papers in philosophy in 2008. 2007 University of Toronto Student’s Administrative Council Award 2006 University of Toronto Student’s Administrative Council Equity Commission Certificate, for enhancing student life and diversity on campus 2005 Alberta Centennial Medal 2001 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada 1999 Overseas Visiting Fellow, St. John's College, Cambridge 1992 Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, held at the Goethe University, Frankfurt 1988 Queen's National Scholar, Queen's University Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Lethbridge 1984 Rhodes Scholarship 1982 Gold Medal, University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Publications Books • Cambridge Pragmatism: From Peirce and James to Ramsey and Wittgenstein, Oxford University Press (2016) • The American Pragmatists, Oxford University Press (2013) • Truth and the End of Inquiry: A Peircean Account of Truth, Oxford University Press (1991 and 2004 expanded edition) • Truth, Politics, Morality: Pragmatism and Deliberation Routledge (2000) • Verificationism: Its History and Prospects Routledge (1995) Edited Volumes • The Practical Turn: Pragmatism in the British Long 20th Century. Proceedings of the British Academy, Cheryl Misak and Huw Price (eds). Oxford University Press, in press. • The Oxford Handbook of American Philosophy Oxford University Press (2008) Updated March 2017 3 • New Pragmatists, Oxford University Press (2007) • The Cambridge Companion to Peirce, Cambridge University Press (2004) • Pragmatism, supplementary volume of the Canadian Journal of Philosophy (1999) Articles (reviews not included, sole author unless specified) • ‘Ramsey's 1929 Pragmatism’, The Practical Turn: Pragmatism in the British Long 20th Century. Proceedings of the British Academy, C. Misak and H. Price (eds). Oxford University Press, in press. • ‘What Makes Peirce a Great Philosopher?' in What Makes A Philosopher Great? Stephen Hetherington, ed. Routledge, in press. • ‘Peirce and Ramsey: Truth, Pragmatism, and Inference to the Best Explanation’, New Essays on Inference to the Best Explanation, T. Poston and K. McCain (eds), Oxford University Press, 2017. • ‘Wittgenstein and Pragmatism’, Bakhurst, David and Misak, Cheryl, The Blackwell Companion to Wittgenstein, Hans-Johann Glock and John Hyman (eds), 2017. • 'Frank Ramsey and the Entanglement of Analytic Philosophy with Pragmatism' in Aaron Preston (ed), Analytic Philosophy: An Interpretive History. Routledge, 2017. • 'A Pragmatist Account of Legitimacy and Authority' in Pragmatism and Justice, David Rondel and Susan Dieleman (eds), Oxford University Press, 2017. • ‘Ramsey's Cognitivism: Truth, Ethics and the Meaning of Life, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, Volume 78 July 2016, pp. 251-263. • ‘C.S. Peirce on Necessity’, Catherine Legg and Cheryl Misak, in Logical Modalities from Aristotle to Carnap: Logical Modalities from Aristotle to Carnap: The Story of Necessity, ed. M. Cresswell and E. Mares, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. • The Subterranean Influence of Pragmatism on the Vienna Circle: Peirce, Ramsey, Wittgenstein’, Journal of the History of Analytic Philosophy. 4/5, 2016, pp 1-15. • 'Engaging Survivors of Critical Illness in Health Care Assessment and Policy Development: Ethical and Practical Complexities' Alison Clay and Cheryl Misak, Annals of the American Thoracic Association. First published online August 30, 2016: doi:10.1513/AnnalsATS.201606-497OI • ‘Russell and the Pragmatists’, The Bloomsbury Companion to Bertrand Russell, R. Wahl (ed), London: Bloomsbury, 2016. • 'Pragmatism and the Naturalist Project in Ethics and Politics: Lessons from Peirce, Lewis and Ramsey', Political Studies Review, 14/1, 2016, pp 7-16. • ‘Oakeshottian Pragmatism: Conversation or Inquiry?’, Education and Conversation, David Bakhurst and Paul Fairfield (eds). Bloomsbury, 2016. Pp. 47-61. • ‘Pragmatism and the Function of Truth’ in Meaning Without Representation Essays on Truth, Expression, Normativity, and Nature, Steven Gross, Nicholas Tebben, and Michael Williams (eds), Oxford University Press, 2015. • ‘Medically Inappropriate or Futile Treatment: Deliberation and Justification’, Cheryl J. Misak; Douglas B. White; Robert D. Truog, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 41/1, pp 90-114, 2016. • ‘Peirce, Kant and What We Must Assume’ in R. Stern and G. Gava (ed) Pragmatism, Updated March 2017 4 Kant, and Transcendental Philosophy. London: Routledge, 2016. • ‘Klein on James on the Will to Believe’, The Journal of the International Society of the History of Philosophy of Science, 5/1, 2015. • ‘Medical Futility: A New Look at an Old Problem’. Misak, Cheryl J. Robert D. Truog and Douglas B. White. Chest, 46/6, 2014, 1667-1672. • ‘An official ATS/AACN/ACCP/ESICM/SCCM Policy Statement: Responding to Requests for Potentially Inappropriate Treatments in Intensive Care Units’. Bosslet GT, Pope TM, Rubenfeld G, Lo B, Truog R, Rushton C, Curtis JR, Ford DW, Osborne M, Misak C, Au DH, Azoulay E, Brody B, Fahy B, Hall J, Kesecioglu J, Kon AA, Lindell K, White DB. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 15;185/10:May 2015, 1117-24. • ‘Pragmatist Epistemology and Democratic Theory: A Reply to Eric MacGilvray’, Misak, Cheryl and Talisse, Robert, Journal of Political Philosophy, 2014. • ‘Survival and Recovery: A Patient’s Perspective’, The Legacy of Critical Care: A Textbook of Post-ICU Medicine, Oxford University Press, 2014. • ‘Language and Experience for Pragmatism’, European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy, Symposia. Language or Experience: Charting Pragmatism’s Course for the 21st Century, vol. 6, no. 2 2014, pp. 28-39. • ‘Exploding a Myth: C.I. Lewis, Pragmatism and the Given’, Filozofia, 4, 2014. • ‘Peirce on Non-Accidental Causes of Belief, The Peirce Quote Book, De Gruyter 2013. • ‘Cheryl Misak’ Peirce: 5 Questions, edited by Frederik Stjernfelt, Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen and Francesco Bellucci, 2012. • ‘Repy to Levine, Margolis and Malrieux’, European Journal of Pragmatism, vol. 2, 2013, pp 131-136. • ‘The Pragmatist Project in Political Philosophy’, Routledge Companion of Political and Social Philosophy, 2013. • ‘Reply to Three Instructive Critics’, Transactions of the C.S. Peirce Society, 2013. • Peirce on Non-Accidental Causes of Belief, The Peirce Quote Book, 2013. • 'Pragmatism and Analytic Philosophy' Oxford History of Analytic Philosophy, 2013. • 'Rorty, Pragmatism and Analytic Philosophy': Humanities: Special Issue on the Legacy of Richard Rorty, 2013. • ‘Donald Davidson’s Place in the History of Pragmatism’, Cognito, 2013. • ‘Hundert Jahre Pragmatismus’, Die Gegenwart des Pragmatismus, Suhrkamp, 2012. • 'American Pragmatism and Indispensability Arguments', Presidential Address, Transactions of the C. S. Peirce Society, vol. 27, no.3, 261-73, 2011. • ‘ICU Acquired Weakness: Obstacles and Interventions for Rehabilitation’, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 183(7), April 2011: 845-6. • 'Pragmatist Epistemology', Routledge Companion to Epistemology, 2010. • ‘The Pragmatic Maxim: How to Get Leverage on a Concept’, Harvard Review of Philosophy Fall, 2010, vol. xvii. • ‘Richard Rorty’s Place in the Pragmatist Pantheon’, The Philosophy of Richard Rorty, Library of Living Philosophers, Open Court, 2010. • ‘Compromised Autonomy and the Seriously Ill Patient’, Tonelli, MR and Misak, CJ, Chest, 137/4, 2010: 926-931. Updated March 2017 5 • 'Narrative Evidence and Evidence Based Medicine', Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 16/2, 392-397, 2010. • ‘Cognitive Dysfunction After Critical Illness: Measurement, Rehabilitation, Disclosure’, Critical Care, 13/4, 312-317, 2009. •